---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 60303"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "60303"
heading: "Applications"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/60303"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Other Crime Control and Law Enforcement Matters"
  - "Chapter 603 — Improving the Quality of Representation in State Capital Cases"
---

# §60303. Applications

- (a) **In general—** The Attorney General shall establish a process through which a State may apply for a grant under this chapter.
- (b) **Application—**
  - (1) **In general—** A State desiring a grant under this chapter shall submit an application to the Attorney General at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Attorney General may reasonably require.
  - (2) **Contents—** Each application submitted under [paragraph (1)](#b-1) shall contain—
    - (A) a certification by an appropriate officer of the State that the State authorizes capital punishment under its laws and conducts, or will conduct, prosecutions in which capital punishment is sought;
    - (B) a description of the communities to be served by the grant, including the nature of existing capital defender services and capital prosecution [programs](/usc/34/60701.md?p=2) within such communities;
    - (C) a long-term statewide strategy and detailed implementation plan that—
      - (i) reflects consultation with the judiciary, the organized bar, and State and local prosecutor and defender organizations; and
      - (ii) establishes as a priority improvement in the quality of trial-level representation of indigents charged with capital crimes and trial-level prosecution of capital crimes;
    - (D) in the case of a State that employs a statutory procedure described in [section 60301(e)(1)(C) of this title](/usc/34/60301.md?p=e-1-C), a certification by an appropriate officer of the State that the State is in substantial compliance with the requirements of the applicable State statute; and
    - (E) assurances that Federal funds received under this chapter shall be—
      - (i) used to supplement and not supplant non-Federal funds that would otherwise be available for activities funded under this chapter; and
      - (ii) allocated in accordance with [section 60306(b) of this title](/usc/34/60306.md?p=b).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–405, title IV, § 423, Oct. 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 2288.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 14163b of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.